Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!

i was told i was conceited today.... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect.... but come on lets be real ........ EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.